ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,450, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle localization" was invented by Ming Xu (West End, Australia), Sourav Garg (Kelvin Grove/Brisbane, Australia), Michael Milford (Gaythorne, Australia), Punarjay Chakravarty (Campbell, Calif.) and Shubham Shrivastava (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approximate camera location on a route can be determined by inputting a first image acquired by a vehicle camera to a first convolutional neural network. First image feature points can be extracted from the first image using a feature extraction algorithm. Pose estimation param...